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3 Major Innovations That Made Large-Scale Music Collaboration Possible Online

Source: HypeBot
November 20, 2010

Central to the founding ideology of Indaba Music is the notion of collaboration; they strive to empower musicians with the means to network and make music together. Since 2007 the website has grown to harbor over 500,000 musicians—from amateurs, who make music for the love of the craft, to Grammy Award winners, who've created music on the professional level. Prior to the emergence of the social web, the tyranny of geography inhibited musicians from collaborating on a large scale and ...

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MP3 Player on Steroids vs. Radio on Crack Cocaine

Source: HypeBot
November 17, 2010

Rhapsody has enabled offline playback for Android users. Most interesting though, is the quote contained within the press release, wherein chief product officer Brendan Benzing says that he believes “all the music you could ever want should be at your fingertips at all times." In contrast, Steve Purdham at We7 suggests otherwise. He's received feedback from his user base that they don't want to bother with all that choice; they simply want to be able to press a button and ...

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Why Facebook's New Messaging System Could Hurt Music Marketing

Source: HypeBot
November 17, 2010

Yesterday, Facebook announced their own “modern messaging system" that combines email, text messaging, and instant messages into a single stream that founder Mark Zuckerberg says goes well “beyond email." The new service, which will debut Monday with an iPhone app and roll out over the next few months, mimics the behavior of teens who are already abandoning conventional email to converse across multiple platforms in short bursts. But Facebook Messaging could also make social music marketing more difficult. Here's why: ...

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The Beatles Now on iTunes

Source: JamBase
November 17, 2010

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Indentify Songs and Collect Them Instantly with Limili

Source: HypeBot
November 16, 2010

Just when you thought your music discovery efforts were optimized to their full potential, Limili takes them one-step further. Remember that time you heard a song playing and wanted to know what it was, but hadn't the slightest clue? Well, companies like Shazam and Soundhound solved that problem. Limili is similar in concept to those services, but it doesn't stop at identification. As users hold up their phone to the speaker, waiting for the song to be identified, the program ...

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In Another Napster Moment, Industry Stalls as Consumers Embrace Music Streams

Source: HypeBot
November 16, 2010

It appears that the recorded music industry may be preparing to shoot itself in the foot yet again. Even as record labels, publishers and pundits debate the pros and cons of music streaming, the consumer has already decided. The popularity of streaming in France, Scandinavia and elsewhere is clear, and the music industry is fond of “blaming" Spotify for the trend. But now Americans—even though denied access to Spotify and almost always without writing a check to any rightsholder—are also ...

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Facebook Introduces "Modern Messaging System"

Source: HypeBot
November 16, 2010

(Updated) During a press conference today Facebook announced a new “modern messaging system" that combines email, text messaging, instant messages and Facebook messaging into a single stream that founder Mark Zuckerberg says goes “beyond email." Users can get an @facebook.com email address, but it is not an essential component of the system and can continue to use their current email address. Citing how teens are already moving away from email as “too slow" and towards text messages and IM, Facebook ...

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Rockmelt Brings Social to Your Web Browser

Source: HypeBot
November 13, 2010

RockMelt is like Google Chrome with Facebook and other social features bundled in. Reviews have called it everything from completely necessary to Chrome with extensions. Though at times, a platform like this would be great to have, it feels like nothing would get done. It's more for power social users than for those that simply want to browse the web. As feedback pours in, they'll be able to fine tune the short-comings and rethink the web browser even more. Some ...

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